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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: world of whiffs and glimpses, she found her divinations work faster
and stretch further. It was a prodigious view as the pressure
heightened, a panorama fed with facts and figures, flushed with a
torrent of colour and accompanied with wondrous world-music. What
it mainly came to at this period was a picture of how London could
amuse itself; and that, with the running commentary of a witness so
exclusively a witness, turned for the most part to a hardening of
the heart. The nose of this observer was brushed by the bouquet,
yet she could never really pluck even a daisy. What could still
remain fresh in her daily grind was the immense disparity, the
difference and contrast, from class to class, of every instant and
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